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Hymns of My Youth: Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven

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This week’s hymn, like many in The Concordia Hymnal, is not found in its most common form. The Concordia-assigned tune is Easter Morrow, borrowed from the hymn Easter Morrow Stills Our Sorrow, another of several hymns I find nowhere else.

2 Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven

Praise, my soul, the King of heaven,
To His feet thy tribute bring;
Ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven,
Evermore His praises sing.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Praise the everlasting King.

Praise the Lord for grace and favor
To our fathers in distress;
Praise Him, still the same as ever,
Slow to chide, and swift to bless.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Glorious in his faithfulness.

Fatherlike, He tends and spares us;
Well our feeble frame He knows;
In His hands He gently bears us,
Rescues us from all our foes.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Widely as His mercy goes.

Angels in the height, adore Him,
Ye behold Him face to face;
Saints triumphant, bow before Him,
Gathered in from ev’ry race.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Praise with us the God of grace.

—The Concordia Hymnal (Augsburg Publishing House), 1960.

Well, alright then! I declined to post any audio because I can’t find it done to the “right” tune. But Scott Aniol says it’s a “great hymn, especially to Lauda Anima,” so here you go:

Lauda Anima

And, since I’m already compromised,

Andrews

Update: The tunes above were reversed; I have remedied that, so they are now listed correctly. Also, I have found the Easter Morrow tune here. Of course, it’s used in its original setting, Easter Morrow Stills Our Sorrow, and sung in Norwegian. You can listen to that here.

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